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7640067 Estimated parameter based control of a process for controlling emission of a pollutant into the air  
A controller directs a process primarily performed to control emission of a particular pollutant into the air. The process has multiple process parameters (MPPs), including a parameter representing...
7634323 Optimization-based modular control system  
A system for controlling a plant process wherein the plant is over-actuated with N+1 actuators and provides N performance variables is disclosed. The system includes an outer-loop controller...
7630779 Self compensating closed loop adaptive control system  
An adaptive control system is described. The system includes a control having a plurality of control parameters, the control parameters providing for control of an associated plant. The control...
7620462 Robust digital controller and its designing device  
A robust digital controller is equipped with a high degree of approximation and is able to incorporate a novel two-degree-of-freedom robust digital control system without substantially considering...
7610108 Method and apparatus for attenuating error in dynamic and steady-state processes for prediction, control, and optimization  
A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model ( 20 ) and an independent dynamic model ( 22...
7603187 Adapative control device, image forming apparatus, and recording medium  
An adaptive control device includes an identifier and a feedforward controller. The identifier estimates an unknown coefficient in a discrete-time transfer function model of a controlled object to...
7599902 Analogical reasoning system  
The present invention relates to a general-purpose analogical reasoning system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a high-performance, semantic-based hybrid architecture for...
7596420 Device manufacturing method and computer program product  
A method is provided wherein a lithographic projection apparatus is used to print a series of test patterns on a test substrate to measure printed critical dimension as function of exposure dose...
7591440 Methods and systems for cement finishing mill control  
Methods and systems for controlling a cement finishing mill, and operating the mill at an optimal point, are disclosed. To determine an optimal point of operation, values of mill power and sound...
7587253 Partial enumeration model predictive controller  
A partial enumeration model predictive controller and method of predictive control for a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, including providing a solution table with problem solutions...
7577504 Vehicle stability control system  
A vehicle stability control system includes a basic request driving force computing unit, a front and rear wheel load computing unit, a virtual turning radius estimating unit, a target value...
7526346 Nonlinear thermal control of a PEM fuel cell stack  
A temperature control scheme for a fuel cell stack thermal sub-system in a fuel cell system that uses a non-linear thermal model and disturbance rejection to provide an optimum stack temperature....
7519563 Optimizing subset selection to facilitate parallel training of support vector machines  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that optimizes subset selection to facilitate parallel training of a support vector machine (SVM). During operation, the system receives a...
7502771 Method, system and apparatus for generating decision trees integrated with petro-technical workflows  
A method of generating a decision tree for a seismic to simulation workflow, including: identifying a plurality of elements of the seismic to simulation workflow; receiving a plurality of modeling...
7496414 Dynamic controller utilizing a hybrid model  
A system and method for predicting operation of a plant or process receive an input value from the plant or process. An integrity of a non-linear model corresponding to a local input space of the...
7477950 Method and system for controlling a network of water appliances  
An appliance control system is described for controlling a plurality of appliances. The system includes a control station located remotely from the appliances and having a control unit for...
7460916 Nonlinear system observation and control  
An observation system configured to observe at least one known state variable of an observed system includes a plurality of filters that are configured to receive a system input, and generate the...
7460915 Methods and apparatus for process control using catalyst state estimation  
In a process control system, the hidden properties of a catalyst are estimated by including those properties in hidden states within a state space model and solving the state space model based on...
7457673 Process for rapidly controlling a process variable without overshoot using a time domain polynomial feedback controller  
A method for controlling a process variable as it approaches a predetermined value (setpoint) so that the setpoint is not exceeded. The method employs a time domain polynomial equation in a...
7451004 On-line adaptive model predictive control in a process control system  
A method of creating and using an adaptive DMC type or other MPC controller includes using a model switching technique to periodically determine a process model, such as a parameterized process...
7430502 Using thermal management register to simulate processor performance states  
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with simulating a processor performance state by controlling a thermal management signal are described. One exemplary system...
7418372 Model predictive control apparatus  
A model predictive control apparatus includes an initial solution generation section, an abnormality handling section, and an objective function adjustment section. The abnormality handling section...
7415311 System and method for adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear processes  
A computer system for controlling a nonlinear physical process. The computer system comprises a linear controller and a neural network. The linear controller receives a command signal for control...
7408316 Multiple motor position control  
A controller for motor activation providing accurate and repeatable position changes by pressing and releasing a push button switch. Repeatable position changes are made in an advance direction by...
7403832 Method and system for advanced process control including tool dependent machine constants  
A controller and a method of controlling a process tool is provided, in which machine constants used for calibrating manipulated variables of the control algorithm are explicitly introduced into...
7400933 SISO model predictive controller  
A method of predictive control for a single input, single output (SISO) system, including modeling the SISO system with model factors, detecting output from the SISO system, estimating a filtered...
7381303 System and method for controlling a thermo-mechanical wood pulp refiner  
Thermomechanical pulp is an important process for producing fibrous mass used in papermaking. A two-level control strategy that stabilizes and optimizes the refining process has been developed. The...
7363380 Method for optimizing a link schedule  
A method for improving a link schedule used in a communications network is disclosed. While the method applies generally to networks that operate on a scheduled communications basis, it is...
7346403 Pid parameter adjustment device  
A PID parameter adjustment device includes: a model storage section ( 1 ) for storing an equation model to be controlled; a PID controller storage section ( 2 ) for storing a control algorithm; a...
7337022 Constraint and limit feasibility handling in a process control system optimizer  
An optimization technique for use in driving a process plant controller, such as a model predictive controller, uses an organized, systematic but computationally simple method of relaxing or...
7323036 Maximizing regulatory credits in controlling air pollution  
A controller directs the operation of an air pollution control (APC) system having one or more controllable operating parameters and a defined operating limit representing a regulatory limit on an...
7284370 Positioning control apparatus  
A positioning control apparatus includes a position detector 102 which detects the position of a positioning object 101 , a target position generator 103 which generates a target position...
7277777 Method and system for real time reporting of boiler adjustment using emission sensor data mapping  
A method to adjust a boiler having a flue gas duct including: sensing flue gas emissions in the gas duct with a plurality of emission sensors arranged in an array; generating a multidimensional...
7272454 Multiple-input/multiple-output control blocks with non-linear predictive capabilities  
A process controller that may be used to control a process having a set of process outputs effected by a set of process control input signals includes a multiple-input/multiple output controller...
7266416 Process control system  
The disclosed process control system makes use of Optimal control (OC) and model predictive control (MPC) techniques for selection of the Expert Systems (ES) targets values U. The ES target values...
7263473 Method for removal of PID dynamics from MPC models  
A method is disclosed for removing the dynamics of the PID controllers from a Model Predictive Controller that was developed using identification testing of a process. This allows creation of...
7260516 Optimization of a design  
An apparatus, system, and method for optimization. The apparatus, system, and method include a mechanism for ending an optimization when all models within one design tolerance of an optimum model...
7242989 Apparatus and method for batch property estimation  
A method and apparatus that generates an estimate of a property of a batch process uses a non-parametric model to generate a plurality of rate of reaction estimates associated with the batch...
7231266 Digital control device and program  
A digital control device for tracking a sine wave according to the present invention has a compensator, a control object and a feedback gain. An input into the compensator is a signal obtained by...
7216071 Hybrid gas turbine engine state variable model  
The present invention relates to a system and a method for developing an engine model. The system broadly comprises a module for generating a state variable model of an engine, which module...
7206627 System and method for intra-operative haptic planning of a medical procedure  
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, attractive haptic objects are associated with a target region for performing a medical procedure and repulsive haptic objects are...
7206626 System and method for haptic sculpting of physical objects  
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for haptic sculpting of a physical object using a haptic device comprises defining a haptic object for aiding in the sculpting of...
7194318 Integrated optimization and control using modular model predictive controller  
A modular formulation of model predictive controller is proposed by this invention ( 400 ). The modular formulation offers a robust model predictive controller with unified method of tuning....
7181294 Vibration control device  
A control device for controlling the motion of a movable part in a machine while suppressing vibration generated in the movable part. The control device includes a state-variable estimating section...
7181296 Method of adaptive interactive learning control and a lithographic manufacturing process and apparatus employing such a method  
By applying time-frequency analysis to a given standard iterative learning control or ILC an adaptive filter for the learned feed-forward loop is designed. This time varying filter varies according...
7154472 Force-feedback input device  
A force-feedback input device includes an operation section to be operated by an operator; a position detection section for detecting the operating state of the operation section; a force-feedback...
7152052 Apparatus and method of controlling single-input-multi-output systems  
An apparatus and method is disclosed for automatically controlling single-input-multi-output (SIMO) systems or processes. The control output signals of a plurality of single-input-single-output...
7149590 Kiln control and upset recovery using a model predictive control in series with forward chaining  
A method for controlling a non-linear process includes the steps of first providing a controller that is operable to receive inputs representing measured variables of the process and predicting on...
7139619 Kiln free lime control  
A kiln thermal and combustion control. A predictive model is provided of the dynamics of selected aspects of the operation of the system for modeling the dynamics thereof. The model has at least...
7139620 Prediction method and apparatus of a processing result  
In a method and apparatus for predicting process results of objects being processed in a processing chamber of a processing apparatus, operation data and process result data obtained at the time of...
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